I don't follow any gods, but I believe in one's freedom to worship to there hearts desire, I believe this strongly. All Thalmor die on sight, even if their beliefs dictate there actions I will not stand idle as they as they strike down the brave souls who defy them. The Empire means nothing to me, I take no factions laws to heart, I simply remove the one treading on another's rights, if he will not be reasoned with. Do not think I smite blindly, I honor the dead or the soon be, lest they give away their humanity for power. For you, the people of Tamriel, I will fight to my last day, on my final breath I will defend those who cannot, through blood and war, negotiation and reason we can keep order by ourselves.

Whoa whoa hold the **** on... Tiber Septim built an Empire to rival any before it. And then what do the Imperials do with it? They ******* forsake their belief in Talos. And why? Because some High Elf ******** decided they would invade? We put the life of one man above the beliefs and practices of an entire empire. Martin was emperor for less than a year, and even he knew his life was not to be put above the empire.
So we surrender to these ********, despite having pushed them back. Despite the fact that Hammerfell is able to hold their own, and even a fractured Skyrim can keep the fight going, Cyrodil decides that it's worth giving up.
Tiber Septim would be ashamed to watch us surrender or beliefs to some Altmer scum. Skyrim is the birthplace of the empire. Talos is the man ascended to godhood for creating the empire. The Empire discarded Tiber Septim the moment they banned the open worship of Talos. The Empire threw away everything he worked to build by thinking that surrender was the course to take. While there were still men and women willing to fight and die to push back the threat of the Aldmeri Dominion, the empire surrendered to an enemy, and then gave way to their occupation. And you're dumber than a mudcrab if you think for a moment that those High Elf bastards haven't occupied.
I spit on your "Empire", populated by cowards who would join forces with the Dominion to put down the very warriors whose ancestors were the true mothers and fathers to the Empire.
My ancestors are smiling at me, Imperial... Can you say the same?

How dare you! The empire will pull back, the empire is our only hope, without the empire we are nothing. The third empire, the same empire that you can just throw away, was created by Talos. To betray the Empire is to betray Talos. Titus Mede II had no choice but to accept the White-Gold Concordant. This is what the Dominion wanted all along, for brothers and sisters to be fighting. What we need to do is unite Tamriel. Black Marsh, High Rock, Hammerfell, Cyrodill, and Morrowind to fight against the Dominion.

Without us, the Empire is nothing! Skyrim IS the empire! I don't care where some "Imperial city" may rest, because the heart of the Empire, the heart of Talos lies in the bosom of his homeland! The Empire was made BY Skyrim!

Y the hell would those damn elves say nords can't believe in who they want to talos is a god because akatosh made home a god well a divine and the imperial bastereds left that he created the empire he made it what it his and the banned him faithless imperials

Talos would rather see a living empire that forsake's one religious figure instead of a burning empire. The elf scum would have broken through eventually and when they did the empire would be left to ruin, Skyrim and Cyrodil alike. The stormcloaks are selfish power lusting fiends! Skyrim and Cyrodil are one in the same. They NEED each other to survive. If you cut them apart they both die.

Talos, who united the empire under the Divines? Who came from Skyrim with its history with elves?
And we won the defensive. The Dominion was pushed back. And were weakened enough to even consider a treaty to begin with? How can you say they would have pushed through, when they were already pushed back? How can you say that fight was hopeless when Hammerfell continued to resist even after the White-Gold tower surrendered?
No, Talos would not have surrendered. He'd have fought to the last warrior. He'd have pushed the elf scum back to their island and then further. He'd have called upon the great warriors of all him Empire to strike down the heretical elves. He'd have led an army of roaring Nords to the edges of Tamriel and beyond to eradicate those that would defy the rule of his Empire. His Empire, which repelled the forces MEHRUNES DAGON HIMSELF! Who fought back swarms of Daedra! His Empire, home to warriors who fight to the bloody death in the Arena, who charged straight for the Daedric armies' front lines, and his people who fight dragons now with nothing more than the small iron weapons they can pick up!
Tiber Septim ascended to Godhood through his endeavors. Would he really be willing to throw it all away because the High Elves throw a hissy fit?

And then surrendered! He won! And then surrendered! Rather than push all the way back to their damned island and raze their capital -- no, their entire country to the ground and salt the earth so that they could never hope to grow back to show such heresy to the Divines.

No, because we didn't almost lose our capital in WWII.
Not only that, but Skyrim is made of warriors. Every Nord is born a warrior, and is willing to fight and die in battle. Even the Orcs in our lands who worship a Daedric lord would rather die destroying an enemy, rather than passing away in some pseudo-peace with said enemy.